Garmin has just announced their Venu 4 & Venu 4S watches, which are their mainstream but sportier competitors to the Apple Watch, Google Pixel, and Samsung Galaxy Watch. And at first glance, based on the relatively thin marketing materials, these would seem to be a letdown. However, in reality, …

 If you had ‘Garmin makes another Crossover watch’ on a list for the year, it certainly wasn’t on my bingo card. I say that not because it isn’t cool (I think it is), but because it was the watch that Garmin most heavily discounted over the past 18 months …

 Every time I start one of these comparisons it seems entirely innocent and doable, and then I find myself some 50+ differences later, triple-checking every stat and nuanced feature. Yet here again, I find myself comparing Apple’s top two models, the Apple Watch Ultra 3, and the Apple Watch …

When Apple surprises me, it doesn’t tend to be some flashy feature that blows the rest of the world away. Instead, it tends to be them doing something slightly out of their usual swim lane, or their norms. For example, adding in running efficiency metrics a few years ago. This …

 Apple has secretly included a nice feature for endurance athletes in iOS 26: The ability to create full structured workouts. Now what’s interesting about this is the fact that it wasn’t mentioned anywhere in Apple’s keynote or elsewhere. I only found out about it as I was leaving Apple …